Archive for the 'Latin' Category

Question: How do we teach Latin or Greek to a child when we don’t know the language ourselves? In fact, having attended public school, we feel as if we lack a healthy grasp of the English language! Answer: When we first learned English, did we construct sentences based upon a conscious knowledge of subject-verb agreement? […]

Why do you recommend Classical Latin over Ecclesiastical Latin – since the Latin Vulgate is written in Ecclesiastical? I would love to know because I am planning ahead… –Amy Ecclesiastical Latin vs Classical Latin just refers to the pronunciation of the words, not to the grammar. In the past we have preferred the Classical pronunciation […]

I am thrilled with the content of your book Teaching the Trivium. I have been searching for such a method of teaching and now that I have found it, I am trying to figure out how to implement it! We began homeschooling just this year and I have been diligent in reading all I can […]

Trivium Pursuit has a new shopping cart! You can visit the product index here. In addition, Artes Latinae, the Latin curriculum which we recommend, now comes with CDs instead of cassettes — AND, it has a new, much lower price.

We’ll be holding a contest next week. One person will win Lessons 1-10 of the new Visual Latin curriculum. In addition, every fan of Facebook Homeschooling with the Trivium will receive a coupon code for 25% off the introductory price for the whole curriculum. More info later.

I have a question regarding the Artes Latinae Latin curriculum. The publisher Bolchazy-Carducci claims, “Conventional techniques of Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin are used sparingly. Memorization of rules is minimized. In place of this there is a mass of drill materials including both paradigms and, more important, pattern practices which teach the structure in such varied ways […]